In the preface to a recent issue of a logic puzzle magazine, I came across this quote from a 1925 paperback called "The Humour of Bulls and Blunders". It aparantly originated as an advert in a London newspaper (but that may be apocryphal)..

"If this should meet the eye of Emma D..., who absented herself last Wednesday from her father's house, she is implored to return, when she will be received with undiminished affection by her most heart-broken parents. If nothing can persuade her to listen to their joint appeal, should she be determined to bring their grey hairs with sorrow to their grave, should she never mean to revisit a home where she has passed so many happy years, it is at least expected, if she is not totally lost to all sense of propriety, that she will, without a moment's further delay, send back the key to the tea-caddy."

:-)

(Just wanted to share..)

Cheers,
Diolma